Combined dispensing and applying device.



J. A. BERG'MANN.

COMBINED DISPENSING AND APPLYING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED IULY I]. I9I 6.

Patented Mar. 26, 1918.

INVENTOR ATTORNEY JOHN A. BERGMANN,

OF ST.

LGUIS, MISSOURI.

GQMBINED ZDISPENSING AND APPLYING: DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Fatent.

Patented llllavr. as, 1918.

Application filed. July 1'7, 1916. Serial No. 109,?69.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that 1 JOHN A. BnnoMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Dispensing and Applying Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a combined liquid dispensing and applying mechanism par ticularly applicable as an attachment to hottles like those which contain liquid shoe blacking or polish, although as will later be pointed out, it is capable of broad use.

The invention aims generally to provide an effective form of mechanism to accomplish the function in view, but one prime object is to provide a valve means in such a mechanism associated with a compressible dauber for operation so as to control the outflow of liquid according to the operation of the dauber, as against the shoe.

Additional objects, mostly servient to those stated, will appear hereinafter as the description progresses and which is to be taken in connection With accompanying drawings illustrating one preferred em bodiment.

In said drawings s Figure 1 is a view illustrating my improvement in vertical section and in connection with a bottle fragment, also shown in vertical section;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the closure member employed having the dauber removed or unassociated therewith, and

Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the closure member, on an enlarged scale.

Referring specifically to the drawings, a conventional form of receptacle has been shown as a bottle at i, for instance one adapted to contain liquid shoe or other blacking or polish. The bottle is closed at the neck by means of a closure member which may be a cork 5. The contents of the bottle discharge through the passageway 6 extending longitudinally of the cork. This passageway 6 is normally closed by a valve 7 which is substantially cone shaped so as to cooperate with a similarly shaped valve seat 8 provided by enlarging the closure 5 adjacent the base of the passageway 6. T he valve 7 has an upstanding stem 9 passing through the said passageway 6 and above it and terminating in an eyelet 10.

A suitable means is provided to normally maintain the valve 7 in engagement with the seat 8 and is particularly made from spring wire and of the specific shape shown in the drawings. This means has a U- shaped portion 11 which passes through the eyelet 10 at the bridge joining the arms of the portions 11. The outer end of each arm of portion 11 is coiled into springs 12 which tension the Ushaped portion 11 to spring upwardly and thus maintain the valve '3' in engagement with its seat. Anchors l3 depend from the springs 12 completely through the cork or closure member, then partly across the bottom of the cork as shown at i l and finally terminate in piercing lugs 15 extending upwardly into the cork and in substantially parallel relation with the portions 13.

A dauber 16 is employed which is preferably compressible and made from a material like a sponge. The stem 9 and the arms of portion 11 pierce the sponge in effecting their connection and as a resu t the sponge is fastened in place.

In use, the bottle l is manually operated like the handle of a dauber and the dauber 16 is brought into engagement with the shoe. As the bottle is pressed into engagei'nent with the shoe, the dauber is compressed and accordingly the portion 11 and the valve 7 is operated so as to uncover its seat. its a result, the contents of the bottle flows therefrom through the passageway 6 and into the dauber being absorbed thereby. This material is applied to the shoe by operation. of the device as a dauber and when the supply is to be replenished, the device is pressed into engagement with the shoe so to again disengage valve 7 from its seat and permit a replenishing supply of liquid to flow into and be absorbed by the dauber 16.

While I have shown and described my invention as particularly applicable to bottles containing'shoe polish, yet it is not to be understood that It limit the invention thereto since the improvements are capable of use generally as a combined dispensing and applying mechanism. Also changes in the de tails of construction may be resorted to within the spirit and scope of the invention.

1 claim 1. A. closure provided with a longitudinal passage way, a valve closing the lower end. of the passage way, a stem carried by the valve and extending upwardly through said passage way, a Usaaped loop loosely conlit) nected to said stem, the free end of said loop being coiled to provide springs, and then embedded in the closure, and a dauber carried by said loop.

2. A closure having an opening extending therethrough and enlarged at its lower end to provide a valve seat, a valve engageable with said seat, a stem formed on said valve and extended upwardly through said opening, a dauber surrounding the upper end of said stem, and a spring member secured upon said closure and extending transversely through the body portion of said dauber for engagement with said stem, said spring member serving as a means for hold- 15 ing the valve in engagement With its seat and also as a fastening device for securing the dauber upon the closure.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN A. BERGMANN. Witnesses FRANK M. HAMMEL, W. E. HAMMEL.

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Washington, D. C. 

